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The Orchid family is the largest family of flowering plants, containing some 25,000 species. | The Orchid family is the largest family of flowering plants, containing some 25,000 species. | ||
| − | Orchids, like the grasses and the palms, which they resemble in some ways—for instance the form of their leaves—are monocotyledons. They have one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in contrast to the two of most flowering plants. | + | Orchids, like the grasses and the palms, which they resemble in some ways—for instance the form of their leaves—are monocotyledons. They have one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in contrast to the two of most flowering plants. Orchids have simple leaves with parallel veins. Their shape is highly variable between species. |
* Vanilla | * Vanilla | ||
* Lady's Slipper | * Lady's Slipper | ||
* Orchid | * Orchid | ||
| − | ===Lily=== | + | ===Lily=== <!--T:2--> |
Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins, and flower parts in threes. | Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins, and flower parts in threes. | ||
* Turk's Cap Lily | * Turk's Cap Lily | ||
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* Hyacinth | * Hyacinth | ||
| − | ===Mustard=== | + | ===Mustard=== <!--T:3--> |
The family was formerly named Cruciferae ("cross-bearing"), because the four petals of their flowers are reminiscent of crosses. | The family was formerly named Cruciferae ("cross-bearing"), because the four petals of their flowers are reminiscent of crosses. | ||
* Cabbage | * Cabbage | ||
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* Watercress | * Watercress | ||
| − | ===Pink=== | + | ===Pink=== <!--T:4--> |
The leaves are almost always opposite, rarely whorled. The blades are entire, petiolate and often stipulate. These stipules are not sheathforming. The flowers are regular and mostly have 5-way symmetry, i.e. with 5 petals and 5 sepals, but sometimes with 4 petals. The sepals are free from one another or united. The petals are fringed or deeply cleft at the end. | The leaves are almost always opposite, rarely whorled. The blades are entire, petiolate and often stipulate. These stipules are not sheathforming. The flowers are regular and mostly have 5-way symmetry, i.e. with 5 petals and 5 sepals, but sometimes with 4 petals. The sepals are free from one another or united. The petals are fringed or deeply cleft at the end. | ||
* Carnation | * Carnation | ||
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* Deptford Pink | * Deptford Pink | ||
| − | ===Buttercup=== | + | ===Buttercup=== <!--T:5--> |
| − | Plants in the Buttercup family are mostly herbaceous plants, but with some woody climbers (such as Clematis) and subshrubs (e.g. Xanthorhiza). | + | Plants in the Buttercup family are mostly herbaceous plants, but with some woody climbers (such as Clematis) and subshrubs (e.g. Xanthorhiza). Leaves are very often more or less palmately compound. The flowers have many free stamens arranged in a spiral and usually many free pistils. Flowers are most often grouped in terminal racemes, panicles or cymes. |
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* Delphinium | * Delphinium | ||
* Columbine | * Columbine | ||
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* Buttercup | * Buttercup | ||
| − | ===Cactus=== | + | ===Cactus=== <!--T:7--> |
Cacti are distinctive and unusual plants, which are adapted to extremely arid and hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cacti are so well known. | Cacti are distinctive and unusual plants, which are adapted to extremely arid and hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cacti are so well known. | ||
* Saguaro | * Saguaro | ||
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* Rabbit Ear | * Rabbit Ear | ||
| − | ===Rose=== | + | ===Rose=== <!--T:8--> |
| − | Members of the Rose family have 5 sepals and 5 petals which are flat and wavy at the margins. | + | Members of the Rose family have 5 sepals and 5 petals which are flat and wavy at the margins. Each flower has at least ten stamens. All members of the rose family have a ''hypanthium'', which is a bowl-shaped part of a flower consisting of the bottoms of the sepals, petals, and stamens stuck together. |
* Rose | * Rose | ||
* Apple | * Apple | ||
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* Pear | * Pear | ||
| − | ===Bean=== | + | ===Bean=== <!--T:9--> |
| − | All members of this family have five-petaled flowers in which the superior ovary ripens to form a "pod", technically called a legume, whose two sides split apart, releasing the seeds which are attached to one or both seams. | + | All members of this family have five-petaled flowers in which the superior ovary ripens to form a "pod", technically called a legume, whose two sides split apart, releasing the seeds which are attached to one or both seams. A significant characteristic of legumes is that they host bacteria in their roots, within structures called root nodules. These bacteria have the ability to take nitrogen gas out of the air and convert it to a form of nitrogen that is usable to the host plant. This process is called nitrogen fixation. |
* Bean | * Bean | ||
* Lupins | * Lupins | ||
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* Kudzu | * Kudzu | ||
| − | ===Parsley=== | + | ===Parsley=== <!--T:10--> |
| − | The parsley family has flower clusters being in the form of a compound "umbel". | + | The parsley family has flower clusters being in the form of a compound "umbel". The small flowers are radially symmetrical with 5 small sepals, 5 petals and 5 stamens. |
* Cumin | * Cumin | ||
* Parsley | * Parsley | ||
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* Angelica | * Angelica | ||
| − | ===Smartweed=== | + | ===Smartweed=== <!--T:11--> |
[[Image:Ocreae of a Persicaria maculosa 2006-aug-10 Gothenburg Sweden.jpg|thumb|180px|Plant stem with a prominent '''ocreae''']] | [[Image:Ocreae of a Persicaria maculosa 2006-aug-10 Gothenburg Sweden.jpg|thumb|180px|Plant stem with a prominent '''ocreae''']] | ||
| − | The seeds of the plants belonging to the smartweed family have a triangular shape. | + | The seeds of the plants belonging to the smartweed family have a triangular shape. Leaves of these plants have a peculiar pair of sheathing stipules known as ''ocreae''. |
* Buckwheat | * Buckwheat | ||
* Sorrel | * Sorrel | ||
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The Bellflower family consists mostly of herbs, shrubs, and more rarely small trees, which usually have milky non-toxic sap. Leaves of these species are often alternate, more rarely opposite. They are also simple and without stipules. Flowers are bisexual, bell-shape, consisting of a narrow tube-like corolla with small spreading lobes. Flowers are fairly often blue. Fruits are often berries, but can also be capsules. | The Bellflower family consists mostly of herbs, shrubs, and more rarely small trees, which usually have milky non-toxic sap. Leaves of these species are often alternate, more rarely opposite. They are also simple and without stipules. Flowers are bisexual, bell-shape, consisting of a narrow tube-like corolla with small spreading lobes. Flowers are fairly often blue. Fruits are often berries, but can also be capsules. | ||
* Bluebell | * Bluebell | ||
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* Balloonflower | * Balloonflower | ||
| − | ===Mint=== | + | ===Mint=== <!--T:13--> |
| − | The flowers in the Mint family typically have petals fused into an upper lip and a lower lip. | + | The flowers in the Mint family typically have petals fused into an upper lip and a lower lip. The leaves emerge oppositely, each pair at right angles to the previous one or whorled. The stems are frequently square in cross section, but this is not found in all members of the family, and is sometimes found in other plant families. The flowers are bilaterally symmetrical with 5 united petals, 5 united sepals. They are usually bisexual and have a flower cluster that looks like a whorl of flowers but actually consists of two crowded clusters. |
* Basil | * Basil | ||
* Mint | * Mint | ||
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* Self-heal | * Self-heal | ||
| − | ===Aster (Daisy)=== | + | ===Aster (Daisy)=== <!--T:14--> |
[[Image:Bidens flwr.jpg|thumb|300px|A typical Asteraceae flower head (here Bidens torta) showing the individual flowers]] | [[Image:Bidens flwr.jpg|thumb|300px|A typical Asteraceae flower head (here Bidens torta) showing the individual flowers]] | ||
[[Image:Flower head.jpg|thumb|300px|Flowers of a sunflower with different forms and phases (sterile ray flowers, disc flowers in female, male and unopened phases)]] | [[Image:Flower head.jpg|thumb|300px|Flowers of a sunflower with different forms and phases (sterile ray flowers, disc flowers in female, male and unopened phases)]] | ||
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* Ragwort | * Ragwort | ||
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| − | ===Snapdragon=== | + | ===Snapdragon=== <!--T:16--> |
The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers that are zygomorphic (can be divided by only a single plane into two mirror-image halves, much like a person's face), or rarely actinomorphic | The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers that are zygomorphic (can be divided by only a single plane into two mirror-image halves, much like a person's face), or rarely actinomorphic | ||
(can be divided into symmetrical halves by more than one longitudinal plane passing through the axis, much as a pie can be cut into several equal and identical pieces). | (can be divided into symmetrical halves by more than one longitudinal plane passing through the axis, much as a pie can be cut into several equal and identical pieces). | ||
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* Mullein | * Mullein | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:29, 7 September 2023
Orchid
The Orchid family is the largest family of flowering plants, containing some 25,000 species. Orchids, like the grasses and the palms, which they resemble in some ways—for instance the form of their leaves—are monocotyledons. They have one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in contrast to the two of most flowering plants. Orchids have simple leaves with parallel veins. Their shape is highly variable between species.
- Vanilla
- Lady's Slipper
- Orchid
Lily
Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins, and flower parts in threes.
- Turk's Cap Lily
- Wild Garlic
- Onion
- Trillium
- Fawn Lily
- Tulip
- Hyacinth
Mustard
The family was formerly named Cruciferae ("cross-bearing"), because the four petals of their flowers are reminiscent of crosses.
- Cabbage
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Brussels sprouts
- Mustard
- Horseradish
- Watercress
Pink
The leaves are almost always opposite, rarely whorled. The blades are entire, petiolate and often stipulate. These stipules are not sheathforming. The flowers are regular and mostly have 5-way symmetry, i.e. with 5 petals and 5 sepals, but sometimes with 4 petals. The sepals are free from one another or united. The petals are fringed or deeply cleft at the end.
- Carnation
- Bladder Campion
- Swamp Milkweed
- Common Milkweed
- Butterfly Plant
- Sand Milkweed
- Whorled Milkweed
- Deptford Pink
Buttercup
Plants in the Buttercup family are mostly herbaceous plants, but with some woody climbers (such as Clematis) and subshrubs (e.g. Xanthorhiza). Leaves are very often more or less palmately compound. The flowers have many free stamens arranged in a spiral and usually many free pistils. Flowers are most often grouped in terminal racemes, panicles or cymes.
- Delphinium
- Columbine
- Marsh Marigold
- Thimbleweed
- Clematis
- Hellbore
- Larkspur
- Buttercup
Cactus
Cacti are distinctive and unusual plants, which are adapted to extremely arid and hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have expanded into green succulent structures containing the chlorophyll necessary for life and growth, while the leaves have become the spines for which cacti are so well known.
- Saguaro
- Barrel Cactus
- Prickly Pear
- Rabbit Ear
Rose
Members of the Rose family have 5 sepals and 5 petals which are flat and wavy at the margins. Each flower has at least ten stamens. All members of the rose family have a hypanthium, which is a bowl-shaped part of a flower consisting of the bottoms of the sepals, petals, and stamens stuck together.
- Rose
- Apple
- Blackberry
- Strawberry
- Raspberry
- Apple
- Plum
- Peach
- Cherry
- Pear
Bean
All members of this family have five-petaled flowers in which the superior ovary ripens to form a "pod", technically called a legume, whose two sides split apart, releasing the seeds which are attached to one or both seams. A significant characteristic of legumes is that they host bacteria in their roots, within structures called root nodules. These bacteria have the ability to take nitrogen gas out of the air and convert it to a form of nitrogen that is usable to the host plant. This process is called nitrogen fixation.
- Bean
- Lupins
- Clover
- Alfalfa
- Peas
- Peanuts
- Soybeans
- Lentils
- Mimosa
- Kudzu
Parsley
The parsley family has flower clusters being in the form of a compound "umbel". The small flowers are radially symmetrical with 5 small sepals, 5 petals and 5 stamens.
- Cumin
- Parsley
- Carrot (Queen Anne's Lace)
- Dill
- Caraway
- Fennel
- Angelica
Smartweed
The seeds of the plants belonging to the smartweed family have a triangular shape. Leaves of these plants have a peculiar pair of sheathing stipules known as ocreae.
- Buckwheat
- Sorrel
- Rhubarb
- Knotgrass
Bellflower
The Bellflower family consists mostly of herbs, shrubs, and more rarely small trees, which usually have milky non-toxic sap. Leaves of these species are often alternate, more rarely opposite. They are also simple and without stipules. Flowers are bisexual, bell-shape, consisting of a narrow tube-like corolla with small spreading lobes. Flowers are fairly often blue. Fruits are often berries, but can also be capsules.
- Bluebell
- Harebell
- Lobelia
- Balloonflower
Mint
The flowers in the Mint family typically have petals fused into an upper lip and a lower lip. The leaves emerge oppositely, each pair at right angles to the previous one or whorled. The stems are frequently square in cross section, but this is not found in all members of the family, and is sometimes found in other plant families. The flowers are bilaterally symmetrical with 5 united petals, 5 united sepals. They are usually bisexual and have a flower cluster that looks like a whorl of flowers but actually consists of two crowded clusters.
- Basil
- Mint
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Savory
- Marjoram
- Oregano
- Thyme
- Lavender
- Perilla
- Self-heal
Aster (Daisy)
Plants in the Aster family typically have one or both of two kinds of florets. The outer perimeter of a flower head like that of a sunflower is composed of florets possessing a long strap-like petal, termed a ligule; these are the ray florets. The inner portion of the flower head (or disc) is composed of small flowers with tubular corollas; these are the disc florets. The composition of asteraceous inflorescences varies from all ray flowers (like dandelions, genus Taraxacum) to all disc flowers (like pineapple weeds).
- Aster
- Common Daisy
- Oxeye Daisy
- Black-eyed Susan
- Lettuce
- Chicory
- Sunflower
- Safflower
- Jerusalem Artichoke
- Goldenrod
- Chrysanthemum
- Dandelion
- Boneset
- Strawflower
- Ragwort
Snapdragon
The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers that are zygomorphic (can be divided by only a single plane into two mirror-image halves, much like a person's face), or rarely actinomorphic (can be divided into symmetrical halves by more than one longitudinal plane passing through the axis, much as a pie can be cut into several equal and identical pieces).
- Butterfly Bush
- Figwort
- Foxglove
- Mullein
